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by SOMA_BOFH 5y ago
have you tried to start a company there?
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by SOMA_BOFH 6y ago
They don't think the rules will apply to them.
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by SOMA_BOFH 6y ago
no sign-up without a gmail account? c'mon man!
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by SOMA_BOFH 6y ago
Sad, considering their history with Apple Corps, but not surprising. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer > The suit was settled in 1981 with an undisclosed amount being paid to Apple Corps.
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by SOMA_BOFH 6y ago
>Imagine if we could figure out how to legitimize it Legalize it and the gangs go bankrupt or pivot to another black market. It's unfortunate many do-gooders are more interested in enforcing their mores on others than working toward
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by SOMA_BOFH 7y ago
>Seems like HN has seriously gone downhill. There has certainly been a reddit-like quality infecting the discussions these past couple of years.
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by SOMA_BOFH 7y ago
> Their prices go up, if the real estate market goes down. Hopefully they provide more detail here. I'm old enough to remember 2008 and recall many financial instruments with a traditionally inverse correlation to each other behavin
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by SOMA_BOFH 7y ago
got any more clichés you can enlighten us with?
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by SOMA_BOFH 7y ago
This is why: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/97.1 47 CFR § 97.1 (a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, pa
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by SOMA_BOFH 8y ago
Is there a proposal from METI more capable of reaching out than this 32MW transmitter with a 1.4° beamwidth which has been operating continuously for decades? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglin_AFB_Site_C-6#How_the_rad
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by SOMA_BOFH 8y ago
I haven't seen any anti-METI argument which counters this: "Humans, Vakoch said, have been using radar, which can purportedly be detected 70 light-years away, since World War II. Television and radio signals would long ago have si
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by SOMA_BOFH 8y ago
the biology, origin and culture of who built it might be interesting.
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by SOMA_BOFH 8y ago
i'd think there would be very little erosion in interstellar space, even over billions of years. "Perhaps the records will never be intercepted. Perhaps no one in five billion years will ever come upon them. Five billion years is
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by SOMA_BOFH 8y ago
new horizons is exiting the solar system without a golden record or a golden plaque. seems like a waste of a very unique opportunity.
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by SOMA_BOFH 8y ago
it's leaving the solar system but no golden record. instead, it has a quarter, a flag, human ashes and a cd-rom disc without a drive or a codec. srsly?
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by SOMA_BOFH 8y ago
Online SDR receivers are a great way to listen using other people's equipment: http://www.websdr.org Reverse Beacon Network and PSKreporter are excellent tools to see how people's signals are propagating: http:/&
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by SOMA_BOFH 8y ago
It's a coil when used in RF applications. Different windings give it different induction properties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_coil
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by SOMA_BOFH 8y ago
APRS is an easy way to get started in packet radio: http://www.nwclimate.org/aprs/introduction-to-aprs/
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by SOMA_BOFH 8y ago
getting started is cheap and easy: http://www.work-sat.com/Home_files/WorkSat-08-2018a.pdf http://www.algissalys.com/amateur-radio/aprs-over-satellites
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by SOMA_BOFH 15y ago
San Francisco, CA - Senior Unix Systems Administrator at Buzzlogic We are a social media analytics company in SOMA looking for a BOFH of a sysadmin: http://www.buzzlogic.com/Company/Careers/